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A13665	The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.; Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. English	Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Hacket, Thomas, fl. 1560-1590.	1568 (1568)	STC 23950; ESTC S111418	200,763	298

Syluer The slaues do no other thing but worke fetch Syluer from the Myne they cary it to the principall and chief towne of that countrey the wich was edifyed at the bottome of the hyll by the Spaniards Synce this Myne was found out all the countries Ilands mayne lands be Inhabited with certaine wylde men all naked as in other places of America Thus much as touching Perou and of his Ilands A description of Noua Espania and of the great citie of Themistitan edified in the vvest Indies Cap. 73. FOr bicause that it is not possible for all men to sée sēsibly all things during his age be it either bicause of the continuall alteration and changing of things that are here in this world or bicause of y e long distāce of places countries God hath giuen the meane to represent them not onely by writing but also by picture by the industry labor of those that haue sene them I haue sene set out by figure many auncient as those of Iason of Acteon Eneas Hercules many other things y e which we may dayly sée in their proper forme without figure as are many kynds of wild beasts For this cause I mynd to set forth rehearse vnto you y e great large citie of Thimistitan as nere as is possible being sure certaine y t few among you haue sene it neither can ye well go sée it bicause of the long dangerous nauigation that it behoueth ye to make Themistitan is a citie edified in newe Spayne the which taketh his beginning at the straight of Ariana and endeth on the north side at the riuer of Canuca In times past it was named Anauak and since because it was discouered and inhabited of Spaniardes it hath receiued the name of newe Spaine Among the which landes the first inhabited was Iucathan the which hath a point of lande lying out into y e sea like vnto the lande of Florida notwithstanding that those which make the Cardes Marius haue forgottē to make the best the which setteth out their shew or description Now this Noua Espania on the East West and South side is compassed with the west sea and on the North side to the new world the which being inhabited is séene beyond in the same North an other lande not known of the Modernes for the which I will not stand therein Themistitan which is a strong Citie great and very riche in the countrey before named is founded on a greate Lake the way that goeth to this Citie is not broader than the length of two speares being so named of him that laide the foundation named Tenuth sonne to the Kinge Iztacmixcoatz This citie hath onely two gates the one to enter in the other for to come out at And not farre from the Citie is a bridge of wood a tenne foote broad the which was made for the encreasing diminishing of the waters for that Lake riseth and falleth like vnto the Sea And for the defence of the citie there is yet many others like in maner to Venice edified in the sea That countrey is cōpassed with very high mountains the plaine cuntrey hath in circuit .150 leagues in the which is foūd .ij. lakes that occupy a great part therof for bicause y t these .ij. lakes haue of circuit .50 leagues of the which thone is fresh water in the which is many good small fishe and the other is salte water the which besyde his bitternesse is venemous and therefore it can nourish no fish the which is against the opinion of those that thinck it to be but one Laake The playne is separated from the sayd Laakes by certaine mountaynes and at their farthest parte they are ioyned with a straight or narow land by the which men are conducted with barkes and boates euen into the Citie the which is standing on the salt water from thence to the mayne land on the causy side it is foure leagues And I cannot compare the greatnesse thereof better than to Venise For to enter into the sayd Citie there is foure ways made of stones artificially wheras there are two cundits or fountaines of y e greatnesse of two paces and of a mans heigth from one of the which is conducted fresh water into the Citie y e which is of the heigth of fiue foote and the water runneth a long euen to the middest of the Citie of the which they drynke and vse it in their nedeful businesse The other Chanel they kéepe emptie for this reason when y t they will ●lense that same wherein the fresh water is they bring all the filth of the Citie with the other to y e land and bicause that the chanels passe by the bridges by the places whereas the salt water entereth goeth oute they conduct the sayd water by swéete and cleane chanells the heigth of a pace Vpon this Laake y t compasseth the Citie the Spaniards haue made many fayre houses places of pleasure some vpon little Rocks others vpon pyles of woode Moreouer Themistitan stādeth a .xx. degrées of eleuation aboue the lyne Equinoctiall and hath .272 degrées of longitude It was taken by strength by Ferdinand of Cortes being captaine generall for the Emperor in those partes of the yeare of grace .1521 containing than .70000 houses little and great The kings palaice which was named Mutuezuma with those of the lords of y e towne was faire great and large The Indians that then did inhabit this Citie had a custome to kepe euery fyue daies the market in places thereto appointed their trade was fethers of byrds with the which they made diuers and sundry things as gounes fashioned after their maner Tapistry woorke and other things And to these sciences were the oldest sorte occupied When they would go worship their great Idoll the which was erected in the myddest of the Citie lyke vnto a theatre who when they had taken any of theyr enimies in the war did sacrifice them to their Idolls and then eate them holding this for a kynde of religion Furthermore their trade was beastes skynnes of the which they made gounes hose and a kynde of hoodes for to kepe them as well from the colde as from stynging flyes The inhabitans at this daye which before were cruel and vnhumaine by succession of time haue so well changed their maners and conditions that in stead of barbarous and cruell they are ciuill and gratious in such sort that they haue left all theyr former naughtie and wicked doings the which they were wont to vse as in killing one another eating humayne fleshe to haue company with the first woman y t they met without hauing regarde either to kindred or degrée with other lyke vices and imperfections Their houses are sumptuously buylded Among other things there is a fayre palaice where as the Armour of y e Citie is kept the streates and places of this Citie are so straight

than in Sōmer for al things haue their season Cornelius Celsus ordayned this fish to the sicke specially to those that had the Feuer or Ague for it is light fish and not heauie but may be well digested there are found more store in the West sea thā in the East sea Moreouer all kinde of fishes are not found in euery place of the sea Helops a singular fish is not found but onely about Pamphilia Ilus and Scaurus onely in the sea Atlantike and so of many others Alexander the great being in Egypt bought two Dorades for two marke of golde for to proue if that they were so delicate and fine meate as it was shewed him so that there were two a lyue brought him from the Weast sea to Nemphis whereas he remained as a Iewe being a Phisitiō shewed me by a Historie being at Damasca in Siria Thus much gentle Reader I haue learned as touching the Dorade for that thou shouldest sée what the elders haue written thereof and among others my lorde William Pellicier Bishop of Mountpellier who hath treated of the nature of fishes as faithfully and truely as any in our tyme. Of an Ilande named the Ascention Cap. 21. THE twentie sixth day of October being eight degrées beyonde our lyne Equinoctiall we founde an Ilande not inhabited the which at the firste we thought to name the Ile of Birdes bicause of the greate multitude of Birdes that are in the sayde Ilande but looking in our carde Marin we found that before tyme it was founde out by the Portingals and named the Ile of the Ascention bicause that on that day they ariued thither We therefore seing those Birdes flying on the sea made vs to thinke that there was some Ilande néere hande and the néerer we came we sawe such a multitude of birdes of diuers sortes with coloured feathers that the lyke was neuer séene in our tyme the which came flying to our ships and woulde reste vpon vs so that we might take them with our handes and with greate payne coulde we be ridde of them For if one had stretched out his Arme they woulde haue rested vpon it euen lyke tame birdes and not one of them lyke to the birdes of our countrey the which to some semeth vncredible Being caste of from our handes they flyed not away but let them selues be taken agayne as before Furthermore in this Ilande there is a certayne kinde of greate birdes that I haue heard called Aponars they haue little wings and therefore they cannot flye They are great and hye lyke hearnshawes the belly white and and the backe blake as cole the byll lyke to a cormorant when they are killed they crye lyke hogs I thought good to speake of this birde among others for that there are founde a greate number of them in an Ilande lying towarde the Caape of good Spéede on the coste or borders of newe founde lande the which was named the Ile of Aponards Also there are such a multitude that on a tyme thrée greate ships of Fraunce going to Canada did lade eche of them two tymes their cockboates with these birdes on the brinke of the sayde Ilande and it is no maistrie to goe into the Iland and to driue them before them to their boates lyke shéepe This therefore hath giuen me occasion to speake so much thereof As touching the reste of the Ile of Ascention it is indifferent faire and pleasant being of circute six leagues with mountaines garnished with faire gréene trées herbes and floures Not forgetting the number of birdes of the which we haue spoken I suppose that if it were labored and tilled with many others that are in the Weaste as well beyonde as on this side the Equinoctiall it woulde render as good profit as Tenedos Lemnos Metelin Negrepont Rhodes and Candia or any others that are in the sea Helispont and the Cyclades for in this greate Weaste sea there are Ilandes that are more then .80 leagues compasse and some lesse among the which the greatest parte are desert and not inhabited Nowe after that we had passed this Ilande there dyd appeare foure starrs of a wonderful greatnesse made in manner of a crosse neuerthelesse farre ynough from the Pole Antartike The Mariners that sayle that way name them charets Some of them thinke that among these is the South Starre the which is fixed and vnmoueable as the North starre that we call the lesser beare the which was hyd before that were vnder the Equator and many others that are not sene at this side to the Northwarde Of the promentarie of good hope and of many secretes obserued in the same likewise our Ariuall to the Indies America or Fraunce Antartike Cap. 22. AFter that we haue passed the Equinoctiall lyue and the Ilande of S. Homer folowing the coste of Ethiopia the which is called India Meridionall it behoued to folow our course euē to the Tropike of winter about the which time we discouered the great famous Promentarie of good hope the which the Pilots haue named Lyon of the sea bicause that it is feared and redouted being so great and difficil This Caape on bothe sides is compassed with two great mountaines and hils of the which the one beholdeth the East the other the West In this coūtrey are many beasts named Rhinoceros for that they haue a horne vnder their snout Some cal them Oxen of Ethiopia This beast is very monstrous and kepeth perpetuall warre and hatred with the Elephante And for this cause the Romaines haue taken great plesure to make these two beastes fight for a spectacle of greatenesse chiefly at the creation of an Emperoure or some other high or greate magistrate as they doe at this day marke Beares Bulls and Lyons He is not altogether so high as the Elephant nor such as we paynte him or set him out in our countrey And that which moueth me to speake is that traueling from Egypt to Arabia I sawe a very Auncient monument whereas was engraued certayne figures of beastes in stede of letters as it was vsed in the olde time among the which was the Rhenoceros being without horne and mayles not lyke as our painters setteth him out This beaste for to prepare him selfe to fight as Plinie rehearseth sharpeneth his horne against a certayne stone and alwayes draweth to the belly of this Elephant for that it is the part of the body that is most softest There is also great quantitie of wilde Asses and another bearing a horne betwene bothe there eyes of two foote long I sawe one being in the citie of Alexandria that is in Egypt that a Lorde Turke brought from Melcha the which horne he sayde had the lyke vertue agaynst poyson as had the horne of an Vnicorne Aristotle calleth these Asses with horne Asses of India About this Promentarie is the departing of the way to the Easte and the Weaste Indies for they that will goe to the Easte Indies as to Calicut

boundance of Rats Sohiatan a kind of Rats Hiexousou another kinde of Rats Gerara a kinde of Serpent Theirab A kinde of straunge fishe The euill disposition of the aire by the Equinoctiall The signification of the Astrolabia How the Author departed from Thequinoctiall Certayne rayne water corrupted The diuision of a degree How ye may know the latitude longitude and distance of places Pirauena Albacore a fish Perou a thirde part of the Spanish Indies Of whence Perou tooke his name The moste renomed prouinces of Perou Quito a Regiō The prouince of the Canaries S. Iames of olde porte Taxamilca One Cuzco The kingdome of the Iugies Canar a very cold countrey The prouince of Calao Titicata a Lake Laake Carcas a countrey of Perou Platte a large and rych Citie The lande of Perou is lyke the figure of a Tryangle Daryen a straight of land A great superstition of certaine people of Perou Bohitis certaine Priests The Idolatry of these people The Spaniards are lords of all Perou The riches of the Ilandes of Perou Iugas a valiant and riche people Corne wil not prosper nor grow in America Cassade a kinde of sustenance Perou may be thought to be a new Europe The Ilande of Spaine before named Haiti Quisquia The Promētaries of the Spanish Iland Tiburou Higney Lobos Orane a Riuer Saint Dominic the chiefest citie in that Iland The most renoumed riuers in Noua Espania The auncient Religion of the inhabitans of this Iland C. Caligula Emperour of Rome Casco Apina rich plentifull Ilands The fruitfulnesse of this Iland named Noua Espania Description of Manati a strange fish Stones good for the colyke Diuers fayre workes made by the wylde men with fethers Hulias and Caris a kinde of strange beasts S. Iames Iland S. Iohns Iland The description of the Ile of Cuba A salte hill Salt of the Earth A kinde of Partriges A wonderfull lykor proceding from a hyll Bre a kynde of lykor Why in times past the wales of Babylon were so strong The Ilands of Lucaia The moūtayne of Potossy very rich in Mynes Themistitan The opinion of two Laake A comparison of Themistitan Ferdinand of Cortes Mutuezuma How they vse to trade The Sea lyke a marishe A starre with a tayle The lying of Florida Why Florida was so named A wylde bull Caape of Baxe Oisters hauing pearles The countrey of Baccalos The poynt of Baccales Baccales a fish The Ilandes of Cortes A voyage by Sebastian Babat Englishman A voiage made by Sebastiā Babat and Iames Quartier into Canada How the land of Canade lyeth Caape de Loraine or the land of Britōs The lying of Caape de Loraine Chelogua a ryuer An other region of Canada founde out by Quartier The amiable maners of these Canadiens A kinde of rackets The vse of these rackets How these Canadians doe chase the dere other wilde beastes Howe these Canadians marrie Osannaha Andouagny a God of the Canadians The opinion of the Canadiās as touching the immortalitie of the soule Donacoua Aguanna king of the Canadians The extreme colde of the countr●y of Canada The Canadians lodgings Why the people toward the north pole are more couragious and hardie than those toward the south A sea that is frosen Oftentimes there is famine in Canada and why The countrey of Labrador founde out by the Spanyards How they labour the earth Myll White beanes Cucumbers and how they vse them A kinde of herbe The vse of this herbe in parfume The Canadians clothing The auncient Galles in the time of Hercules wer like to wylde people The vse of wooll and by whome it was inuented How these Canadiens weare their haire The clothyng that the wiues of Canada vse to weare Howe the Canadians marry Agahanna How they vse their children A superstition vsed by the Turkes The Canadiās are warlike people Toutaniens enimies to the Canadians Of Ochelagua and Seguana How they prepare them to make warre These Canadiens vse feates and policie in their warre Another policy How these Canadians march in the warre A kinde of Drummes that they vse Howe they vse to fight Howe our elders in times past vsed to fight Heroditus Virgins vsed to fight one with another at the feasts of the Goddesse Minerua Diodorus The Anciēt custome of the men of Thebes Lacedemonians in fighting How these Canadians treate their enimies The goodnesse of the countrey of Canada The iuyce of a tree hauing a taste like good wine Cotton a tree Naturall vine rootes in Canada Stones like in colour to a mine of golde Mynes of Iron and mynes of Brasse Diamonds of Canada A Prouerbe Opinions on the creation of Crystall Solon Diodorus Crystal of Canada How greatly Cristall was estemed in tymes past of the Ancient Emperours of Rome and to what vse it was put Iasper stones Cassidonies The countrey of Canada is subiect to earthquakes why Hayle rife in Canada Earthquakes are dangerous The opinion of some Philosophers as touching earthquakes What the wind ●● The inconueniences that folowe earthquakes Seneca Why the Tēple of Diana was edified on a marish ground Earthquakes in Canada very violent The Ilands of Deuils Cape de Marco Newe found lād a very cold countrey Oyle of the fat of fishe The superstition of diuers nations in Leuant With what fish the Whale liueth Plinie sheweth that a Whale is dangerous on the sea to mete A fishe that is perpetuall enimie to the Whale Hehec a fishe Foreshewings of tempests Isidorus Straūge beasts Two kindes of Egles In his .xvj. boke of his naturall history Virgill Forestof Dodona Howe the men of Newe found land do warre Strange bāners The Ilandes of Essores why it is so named feared of the Nauigantes Essores The fruitfulnesse of the Ilāds of Essores Hyrcy Orcantine a kinde of Ceder Plynie A chest of Ceder A ship of Ceder A Prouerbe The Iland of S. Michel Cape Fynistra The Authors conclusion The Authors Cardes contayning the lyeng distances of places